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(Jun. 28, 1993) Died:Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 29
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<p> DIED. DONALD ("Deke") KENT SLAYTON, 69, one of the original
Mercury 7 astronauts; of brain cancer; in League City, Texas.
The Wisconsin native and Korean War-era test pilot was one of
the pleiad of handsome, heavily promoted aviators scheduled
for solo journeys in the series of Mercury space flights, the
first stage in the U.S. space program. Yet in 1962, just before
he was scheduled to become the second American in orbit, doctors
discovered a heart murmur, and Slayton was grounded. But by
July 1975 his ailment had disappeared, and at age 51, Slayton
participated in the famous Apollo-Soyuz mission, in which an
American spacecraft docked with a Soviet counterpart.
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